Suitcases on a school stage in Helston

At Parc Eglos Primary School, Helston, for the fourth day running this week – this time in the afternoon. We managed to set up a pop-up exhibition in the school hall. It’s amazing what you can do using old cardboard suitcases as plinths, easels as signs for signage and brightly coloured fabric to draw the […]

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Three days in Helston and making progress in Romanian

At Parc Eglos Primary School, Helston, Cornwall, again today (12/1/22) for the third day running to talk to students about migration and teach a few phrases of Romanian. The idea? So that the children could welcome any newcomers without English to their school. It might have seemed a bit ambitious to teach Romanian in 20 […]

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Conversation in Romanian and thoughts about packing

A second day of workshops at Parc Eglos Primary School in Helston, west Cornwall. Yesterday we worked with the early years. This morning (11 January 2022) we worked with Year 4 students, first an assembly with the full cohort of 120 then two separate classrooms where we learned a bit of Romanian with the help […]

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Hello, goodbye and thank you in Romanian

It was great to be at Parc Eglos School in Helston today for workshops with Years 2 and 3. We ran an assembly about migration and journeys – Mirabela Robatzchi, originally from Romania, helped me brilliantly as ever. We then went into classrooms to do the apparently impossible i.e. teach a few phrases of Romanian […]

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Free Holiday Club in Camborne

Very pleased to be at T2M Holiday Programme today (20 December 2021) at All Saints’ Church, Roskear, with our suitcases real and cardboard to talk about journeys and the issues around them as part of I PACKED THIS MYSELF. About 30 Primary School aged children attended. Through the T2M Holiday Programme, local authorities are providing […]

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Latest work on migration

A real treasure trove of ideas and drawings from children at St John’s Catholic Primary School, Camborne, west Cornwall. We visited the school earlier in November (2021) to talk about migration – people on the move. Anyone might need to leave home to find work. We left cardboard cut-out suitcases with them and asked them […]

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